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What prevents a man’s speaking good sense with a smile on his face?

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Let the character as it began be preserved to the last; and let it be consistent with itself.
HORACE

Character Consistent Last
Without love and laughter there is no joy; live amid love and laughter.
HORACE

Joy Laughter Love People
People hiss at me, but I applaud myself in my own house, and at the same time contemplate the money in my chest.
HORACE

Country House People
It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire.
HORACE

Fire Neighbor Wall
To have begun is half the job; be bold and be sensible.
HORACE

Half Job Sensible
Half is done when the beginning is done.
HORACE

Country Half Happen People
In adversity, remember to keep an even mind.
HORACE

Adversity Inspirational Motivational
Rule your mind or it will rule you.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
One cannot know everything.
HORACE

Everything Know Knowledge
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
HORACE

Greedy Mind Praise
I would not exchange my life of ease and quiet for the riches of Arabia.
HORACE

Country Ease People Rich
Life gives nothing to man without labor.
HORACE

Give Labor Life Men
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
HORACE

Affair Business Other People
When evil times prevail, take care to preserve the serenity of your hear.
HORACE

Evil Life Serenity
The envious pine at others’ success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.
HORACE

Envy Punishment Tyrant
Seest thou how pale the sated guest rises from supper, where the appetite is puzzled with varieties? The body, too, burdened with I yesterday’s excess, weighs down the soul, and fixes to the earth this particle of the divine essence.
HORACE

Essence Soul Yesterday

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